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Van Gogh's Starry Night @ Second Life

What Robbie Dingo has done is something Akira Kurosawa only envisioned: brought Van Gogh's masterpiece to rich, three dimensional life, and for a brief moment, recast it as a living place. (Brief, for the construction was always intended as a temporary project, "so it's all been swept away now, leaving only the film behind.") But for a breathtaking moment (this is my favorite shot, above) you get to the most iconic of starry nights recast under the rising sun.

"One of the challenges was to make it look fluid and simple," Robbie tells me. "If I have got it right, then it should look like something that was thrown together very quickly, but in reality I worked on this in dribs and drabs over a number of evenings."

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Second Life Challenges Real World Bureaucracy

By sonia zjawinski July 02, 2007 | 4:35:38 PMCategories: Architecture   

We all know how long it can take a governmental body to complete a project -- Operation Iraqi Freedom anyone? Frustrated with the lack of movement and community involvement with a plan to build a new garden in the central Halles area of Paris, local residents started a competition within Second Life to come up with possible designs for the real world location.

While the association knows that the winning design (whose creator won 275,000 Linden dollars) won't be implemented because it doesn't consider real world conditions, they're hoping the competition will put pressure on the mayor to move this project along. It's been in talks since 2004.

The main prize went to Joshua Culdesac and Piper Pitney, who's idea included ambitious water features and an ice rink. Smaller prizes were also awarded, including 40,000 Linden dollars to a six-year-old in the children's play area category.

According to an article in BBC News: "Some of the participants in the competition spent up to a month working part-time on their entry, says Accomplir vice-president Gilles Pourbaix."

[image via BBC News]

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/07/second-life-cha.html

We all know how long it can take a governmental body to complete a project -- Operation Iraqi Freedom anyone? Frustrated with the lack of movement and community involvement with a plan to build a new garden in the central Halles area of Paris, local residents started a competition within Second Life to come up with possible designs for the real world location.

While the association knows that the winning design (whose creator won 275,000 Linden dollars) won't be implemented because it doesn't consider real world conditions, they're hoping the competition will put pressure on the mayor to move this project along. It's been in talks since 2004.

The main prize went to Joshua Culdesac and Piper Pitney, who's idea included ambitious water features and an ice rink. Smaller prizes were also awarded, including 40,000 Linden dollars to a six-year-old in the children's play area category.

According to an article in BBC News: "Some of the participants in the competition spent up to a month working part-time on their entry, says Accomplir vice-president Gilles Pourbaix."

[image via BBC News]

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/07/second-life-cha.html

We all know how long it can take a governmental body to complete a project -- Operation Iraqi Freedom anyone? Frustrated with the lack of movement and community involvement with a plan to build a new garden in the central Halles area of Paris, local residents started a competition within Second Life to come up with possible designs for the real world location.

While the association knows that the winning design (whose creator won 275,000 Linden dollars) won't be implemented because it doesn't consider real world conditions, they're hoping the competition will put pressure on the mayor to move this project along. It's been in talks since 2004.

The main prize went to Joshua Culdesac and Piper Pitney, who's idea included ambitious water features and an ice rink. Smaller prizes were also awarded, including 40,000 Linden dollars to a six-year-old in the children's play area category.

According to an article in BBC News: "Some of the participants in the competition spent up to a month working part-time on their entry, says Accomplir vice-president Gilles Pourbaix."

[image via BBC News]

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/07/second-life-cha.html

Arquiteturas improváveis

O projeto "Arquiteturas Improváveis" faz parte da exposição "Memória do Futuro" e estréia nesta quarta-feira, 04/07, no Itaú Cultural e fica em cartaz até 09/09. O projeto foi desenvolvido pela Giselle Beiguelman e Vera Bighetti com participação de Lalai e Juliana Constatino.

O projeto tem por mote o público como protagonista do processo expositivo e o Second Life como um espaço de horizontes em aberto e sem paralelo no mundo físico.      

Parte-se dos princípios da endofísica de Otto Roslër, que desembocaram na teoria do caos, para criar um espaço que desafia a percepção dos interatores e reage à sua presença, sendo remodelado e sofrendo mutações estruturais quando visitado e percorrido.      

Em um terreno no SL, implantamos edifícios de arquiteturas improváveis, suspensas, transparentes e sem colunas, com formatos inusitados que permitem navegar no seu interior e exterior, atravessando as paredes e mesclando-se com a estrutura.      

Trata-se de ambientes arquitetônicos que assumem “a cara do público”, ao serem modificados pela presença dos visitantes, por meio de mutações em suas cores e testuras que se transformam nossas arquiteturas improváveis..      

'Esculturas de imagens’ transitórias, baseadas em materiais líquidos e gasosos, sem portas ou janelas, são um convite à exploração por sentidos emergentes nos contextos dos espaços imersivos.

O projeto se desenvolve no SL em três espaços: Itaú Cultural, Ilha Búzios e na Galeria de Arte Digital Noema.

+ informações: www.noema.art.br/ai